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The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, case files, a few subject files, printed material and three caricature drawings of Filonenko. By far the greatest amount of material is in the form of manuscripts and case files. The manuscripts fall into two categories: notes and drafts, written in French, dealing with legal matters, and a diary, containing a large number of clippings, in which Filonenko chronicles and comments upon events in Russia, Eastern and Western Europe during the period 1918-1920. The case files, primarily from the 1930s, contain materials gathered in the process of defending his clients, chiefly Russian emigres, before the French courts. Included among these are the records of Filonenko's defense of Nadezhda Plevitskai︠a︡-Skoblin in the General Miller kidnapping trial in 1937-38.

The collection consists mostly of his original drawings for Russian periodicals, including "Odesskiĭ listok" Odesskie novosti" "Ruĺ" and "Vozrozhdenie" and also for various French titles. There is also correspondence, including single letters from such emigre figures as Ivan Bunin and Pavel Mili︠u︡kov; a manuscript of Nadezhda Teffi's "Nichego Podobnogo" with Drizo's drawings of its characters; and copies of two books illustrated by Drizo: MAD"Tak bylo" (Odessa, 1918), and S. Chernyĭ"Zhivai︠a︡ azbuka" (Berlin, 1922) (the original drawings for the latter work are also included).

Cataloged photographs are of Antonʹin Sv̌ehla and Edvard Beneš/ Other photographs portray a convalescent home, a secondary school, the Zemgor library in Prague, the Zemgor staff, and the staff of the Russkiĭ Zagranichnyĭ Istorichesskiĭ Arkhiv (Russian Historical Archive Abroad). Also included are charts of contributions and programs, and a caricature apparently of Russian activists in Czechoslovakia.